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The metallurgists of the Val d’Agri, in Basilicata, have already gone from the state of agitation to the real strike, a few days ago: not only are they calling for the fulfillment of the economic agreements but, as Fim, Fiom and Uilm write, “the future of the oil problem in the region, from the drastic instrumental reduction in maintenance and environmental activities. ”In Sicily, on the other hand, the hundreds of employees of Auchan and Coop de Palermo fear for their jobs. As in the North, the 174 employees of Sicor de Rovereto, to whom the arrival of a new Spanish property does not seem to have offered all the economic guarantees requested and requested even through uninterrupted strikes that lasted weeks. The Italy of the post Covid-19, always assuming that the worst is over, is very similar to that of labor disputes before the outbreak of the pandemic, as the Whirlpool affair demonstrates too eloquently. from Naples. Yesterday the workers of the plant left at 10 in procession leaving the factory in via Argine and moving towards the city center. “We want the ministerial table to have a date and for the government to bring the only credible solution for us and for the future of the country: Whirlpool stays in Naples and respects the agreements,” they explain.
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The precariousness of the industrial system and part of the large-scale distribution, to be honest, has been known for a long time but now that the economy is getting back into operation with great care, the suspicion grows that very little will be the same. And, above all, as almost all socioeconomic observers now say, that the recovery will be without new employees, as can be seen from the data released yesterday by Istat on the evolution of employment in the second quarter of the year (evident hours worked, by example, although the situation has certainly improved since July).
On a strictly numerical level, it was reported that disputes reaching the Ministry of Economic Development decreased in August. From around 160 it was reduced to around 120, although the number of workers involved is still very high, around 170 thousand, of which at least 40% in the South. The Mise points out that for the most part these are tables that have been open for several years, 28 for a good 7 years, because they are situations that require permanent discussion due to the critical nature of the reference sector. But the fact that around seventy tables have been open for more than 3 years confirms that getting companies in non-economic crisis back on their feet is still difficult, to say the least, and that the paths for industrial reconversion remain almost always uphill. This is demonstrated by the case of Termini Imerese in Sicily, where so far all attempts to reindustrialize the site of the old Fiat have yielded partial or negligible results, especially with regard to the recovery of the old workforce. For two historic Made in Italy brands such as Pernigotti and Corneliani, as Undersecretary Todde recalls, it was possible to find agreements capable of saving at least 1,800 jobs. But other delicate disputes are already appearing around the corner, from Bekaert to the former Embraco, who have long dragged themselves down tracks of absolute uncertainty. For the first time, after the closure of the Figline Valdarno plant two years ago, an Italian consortium had come forward, but really the only good news is the extension of the redundancy fund for workers. Even for the 400 workers at the former Embraco, the future is a big question mark, with their old company bankrupt and almost total darkness for new investors.
In addition, signals from industrial groups operating in sectors with the highest risk of not being able to restart at full capacity, such as automotive, rail and aeronautical transport, should not be underestimated. The Air Italy case is emblematic: The exhausting rescue of 1,453 workers through recourse to the Dismissal Fund, just for a change, only served to cushion the strong occupational risk, but the real negotiation, that is, on the re-employment of labor, must be defined especially now that for the airlines the post-pandemic scenario is still plagued with doubts. The hypotheses about the future range from a possible “sector of the newco Alitalia” to a public-private company with the Regions within it. For now we are sailing or rather we are flying in sight.
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In addition, yesterday’s Istat data draw a particularly negative scenario for employment in the South, already penalized by the cut of tens of thousands of temporary contracts, from tourism to restoration, as well as fixed-term contracts expired in the first half of the year. and no longer renewed. There is also concern about the increase in the rate of unemployed people under 35 years of age and the inactive rate, a phenomenon that seemed to have stopped and that, on the other hand, the pandemic has returned to levels of new absolute emergency. It is no coincidence that the confederal unions have organized a mobilization day for next Tuesday, September 18 with the slogan “Starting over from work” and at the center of their own uncertain disputes such as Whirlpool. According to Svimez estimates, more than 400 thousand workers in the industrial and commercial sectors of the South are at high risk, and these must be added the other 200 thousand who have not returned to work due to the economic crisis that broke out in 2008.
The government, through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, has indicated in digital the necessary inflection point not only for the Public Administration but also for the new industrial development, as a result of the strengthening of Industry 4.0 decided by Minister Patuanelli, unique example of industrial policy. from the country. The problem is that the South started a long time ago, perhaps too far away to be able to aspire to adequate competitiveness indices in the short term. This is demonstrated by the fact that the processes of industrial relaunching of companies in crisis have only rarely produced innovative and technological repercussions in the face of global competition. In many cases, the reconversions have sacrificed jobs for short- and medium-term objectives, despite the support of public money.
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